Obama & Santos, together again

27Feb08

Check out this great video from Slate highlighting the (quite intentional) parallels between Barack Obama and The West Wing‘s Matt Santos. I hope the result is the same, although I can’t imagine that the parallel will persist, with Obama choosing Leon Panetta as running mate!

Update: Alas, Slate has taken down the video, but since this post still gets some readership, here’s the Times piece about the parallel, 8 months behind. And the YouTube residue of Slate’s video is below:

Sorry — one more comment about Smits: You look back on his career and he’s been a part of three of the biggest TV franchises in history: LA Law, NYPD Blue and The West Wing. That’s gotta qualify him for TV Hall of fame, no?